12/31/13

Complete your TOEFL Week 1 Chart.
Review the Chapter 1 study guide words for a spelling test on Friday.
Have a Happy New Year's Eve!

(Remember that Study Guide 1 is due on Friday. Parts A,B,C, & E)

12/30/13

Welcome to English 140!

Remember to complete Study Guide 1 Parts A&B. The rest is due on Friday. :)

12/13/13

Remember to review your portfolio essays. It is due on Wednesday, the 18th. The Michigan test will be on Friday, the 20th. The Final Exam is the 23rd, and the Final Presentation is the 24th. 

12/12/13

Review the TOEFL 10 Vocab words for the quiz tomorrow. Also, remember to complete your portfolio reflection letter and review your essays over the weekend. The Final Portfolio is due next Wednesday, the 18th! 

12/11/13

Here are the words for the final TOEFL quiz on Friday:

stringent	temerity	tranquil	trivial	spurn
tangible	satellite	supine	sultry	succulent
scourge	sordid	tenet	stupendous	zenith

You will need to write sentences.

Also remember to study the Chapter 10 vocab words for the spelling quiz tomorrow. 

12/10/13

Complete your TOEFL 11 Vocab Chart. This is the last one! :) Also, make sure your Works Cited for your essay 10 is finished. 

12/09/13

Continue completing your final portfolio essays. We will have time in class tomorrow to look at your Works Cited page and continue conferences on your Essay 10. 

12/05/13

Remember to review your TOEFL 10 Vocab for the quiz tomorrow. Also, complete Study Guide 10 Part C and finish your Essay 10 by Monday! 

12/04/13

Here are the words for the TOEFL 10 quiz on Friday:

proximity	querulous	procrastinate	refute	provisional
resentment	prevaricate	raze	rudimentary	presumption
sallow	prestige	prerogative	ramification	quash

Also, remember to complete Study Guide 10 Part C and continue working on your portfolio essays. Essay 10 should be finished by Monday.

12/03/13

Remember to complete your TOEFL 10 Vocab chart. Also, make sure you have 3 sources about your topic for your Essay 10 / Researched Presentation topic. 

12/02/13

Complete Study Guide 10 Parts A&B. Choose 10 words from the chapter and make an outline of the important information. Remember to have at least 9 pieces of information.

11/27/13

Here the words that will be on the final exam from the Week 9 TOEFL charts. Remember to read chapter 10 and have a wonderful Thanksgiving Holiday! :)

nonchalant	plagiarism	precipitous	obdurate	paraphrase
novice	obsolete	prestige	ostracize	peruse
notorious	ponderous	perverse	ostensible	panegyric

(Also, remember that Part C of Study Guide 9 is due by midnight tonight!)

11/26/13

Remember to complete your TOEFL 9 vocab chart (even though there is no quiz this week, these words will still be on the final exam). Also, remember to Read chapter 10 as your homework over the long weekend break. It's short! (The study guide is also short!)

11/25/13

Complete Study Guide 9, parts A&B. (Part C will be due at midnight on Wed.) We will share/discuss answers in small groups. Also, continue to work on completing your first portfolio essay. After this Wednesday, you should have essay 1 and essay 2 chosen. 

12/22/13

Read Chapter 9. Parts A&B should be completed by Tuesday. Since we have a holiday on Thursday and Friday next week, you don't need to do Part D, the short essays. :)

11/21/13

Finish your Annotated Bibliography! Remember to fill out the Self-Score in the first column to make sure you aren't forgetting anything. Also, review the TOEFL 8 Vocab for the quiz tomorrow. You will make a paragraph.

11/20/13

Here are the words for the TOEFL 8 Quiz on Friday. You will need to make a paragraph:

jaunty	motley	laconic	judicious	ludicrous
itinerant	myriad	meticulous	lucid	lavish
noisome	latent	jeopardy	lethal	murky

Remember to continue to work on your Annotated Bibliography. It is due on Friday. If you changed your topic, also remember to find at least 3 good websites with reliable information about your new topic for the final presentation / researched argument essay 10. 

11/19/13

Complete your TOEFL 8 vocab chart. Think about your final presentation topic. We will do an activity with it tomorrow.

Also, remember your Annotated Bibliography is due on Friday! 

11/18/13

Complete your Study Guide 8 tonight, Parts A, B, & C. We will share/compare answers in class tomorrow morning.

Also, continue to work on Alphabetizing and writing your annotations for each citation of your Annotated Bibliography. It is due on Friday!

11/15/13

Read Chapter 8 and look for 10 words for Part A. Part A&B will be due on Tuesday.

You must have 5 sources filled in on your Annotated Bibliography chart by Monday. We will work on writing annotations together in class on writing workshop on Monday. :) 

11/14/13

Remember to complete your Study Guide 7 tonight. It's due tomorrow! Also review the Week 7 TOEFL words for the quiz. :) 

11/13/13

Review the Ch. 6&7 vocabulary for the spelling and sentence quiz tomorrow. Also, continue to work on completing your chapter 7 study guide. It's due on Friday.

Here are the words for Friday's TOEFL 7 Quiz:

hyperbole	ingenious	incarcerate	immune	inference
imprecation	impregnable	hypothesis	irksome	incognito
ignominious	impropriety	imminent	impeccable	insatiable

Also, remember to have 5 sources and one citation completed for your Annotated Bibliography before class on Monday! 

11/12/13

Remember to complete your TOEFL 7 chart. Also work on your Study Guide 7. It is due on Friday. 

11/07/13

Review the TOEFL 6 words for the quiz tomorrow. You will need to make a paragraph.

Also, remember to read chapter 7 this weekend. Parts A&B are due on Tuesday. Monday is Veteran's Day! :) 

11/06/13

These are the words for the TOEFL week 6 quiz on Friday. You will need to make a paragraph.

fathom	fictitious	heinous	haitus	frustrate
feasible	fleeting	fervid	heedless	hoax
fatuous	felicity	fealty	fiasco	flamboyant

Remember to review the words from weeks 1-5 for the midterm exam. Your main homework is to review for the exam. We will start right at 9:00. Don't be late!!!

11/05/13

Remember to complete your TOEFL week 6 chart. Also, continue to review for the midterm exam on Thursday. We will have another review/study time on Wednesday after lunch for the TOEFL 1-5 words. 

11/04/13

Complete your Study Guide for Chapter 6. Remember to choose 10 words and finish the timeline with at least 10 events. We will share and discuss the vocab and events together in class.

Also, review your study guides 1-5. The midterm exam is this Thursday, 11/07/13.

John Muir Vocab Ch. 1-5 (spell & make a sentence)
Study Guide Comp. Qs
TOEFL Vocab 1-5 (pos, definition/synonym/sentence)
Story Corp (6 questions)
Short Essay (Write 100+ words)

11/01/13

Read chapter 6. Remember that you need to choose your own 10 words from the chapter and completed the timeline by Tuesday. :)

Have a great weekend!

10/31/13 Happy Halloween!

Remember to review the TOEFL week 5 words for the quiz tomorrow. You will need to make sentences. Also, your Study Guide 5 is due tomorrow, complete it tonight. 

10/30/13

Here are the TOEFL week 5 words for Friday's quiz. You will need to make sentences.

facetious	egotistic	dynamic	exemplary	emissary
exceptionable	elucidate	ephemeral	elicit	fallible
ensue	dolorous	edify	edict	exaltation

Remember to study the John Muir Chapter 4&5 vocabulary from Part A for the spelling quiz tomorrow. You will also need to make sentences for 5 of the 10 words that you will spell.

bustling	route
whittled	settlers
consumed	constructed
patriotic	malaria
specimens	roundabout
intrigued	awe-inspiring
allegiance	locusts
wading	resident
sympathetic	interfered
tramp	tremendous

10/29/13

Complete your TOEFL week 5 chart. I will post the words for the quiz on Friday tomorrow.

10/28/13

Complete Study Guide 5 Parts A&B. The words from Part A along with the words from chapter 4 will be on a spelling quiz this Thursday.

Next Thursday (11/07/13) is the mid-term test covering the vocabulary and information from chapters 1-5. There will also be a Story Corp listening section and a TOEFL vocab section for the words from the quizzes on weeks 1-5. 

10/25/13

Read Chapter 5 over the weekend. Remember that Parts A&B will be due on Tuesday. Also, the words from this chapter and chapter 4 will be on a spelling and sentence quiz on Thursday.

Have a wonderful weekend. :) 

10/24/13

Remember that your Study Guide 4 is due tomorrow! We won't have time to work on it in class, so finish it up this evening. :)

It is also a good idea to review the TOEFL week 4 words for the quiz tomorrow. You will be writing a paragraph.

10/23/13

Here are the words for the TOEFL quiz on Friday. You will make a paragraph.

crucial	craven	devout	diverse	cryptic
delete	culpable	curb	deplete	cringe
deference	demure	credible	demeanor	dissent

Continue to work on your Study Guide 4. It is due on Friday. :) 

10/22/13

Complete your TOEFL week 4 chart. I will post the words for Friday's quiz tomorrow. 

10/21/13

Remember to complete Study Guide 4 Parts A & B tonight. We will share and discuss the vocab and answers to the comprehension questions together tomorrow.

10/18/13

Read Chapter 4. Remember that Parts A&B of Study Guide 4 are due on Tuesday.

Have a great weekend! :)

10/17/13

Review the TOEFL Week 3 words for the quiz tomorrow. You will make sentences. Remember to continue working on your Study Guide 3. It should be completed by the end of class tomorrow. You will have time after the TOEFL quiz to work on the Study Guide since we won't be having 130/140 Discussion. 

10/16/13

Here are the words for the TOEFL 3 Quiz on Friday:

caricature	chronic	clement	clamorous	compensation
chicanery	cogent	coercion	condole	circumvent
collusion	civil	candid	condone	celestial

Remember to review the Ch. 2&3 vocab from the John Muir book. We will have a spelling quiz for those words tomorrow. You will spell 10 words, then choose 5 words and make your own sentence.

Remember to continue working on your Study Guide for chapter 3, which is due at the end of class on Friday. We will have time after the quiz to work on the Study Guide in class. There is no 130/140 discussion this week. Let me know if you have any questions! 

10/15/13

Remember to complete your TOEFL Week 3 chart tonight. I will share the words for Friday's quiz tomorrow.

Also, remember that we will have a John Muir Vocab Quiz on Thursday for chapters 2&3. It will be a spelling quiz. Here are the words again:

strict	plentiful
fascinated	backbreaking
frugal	thrashing
suffocating	barometer
contraption	quarantine
booked passage	porridge
ornithologist	imitating
shivered	exhausted
ventilated	primitive
scootchers	devout

10/14/13

Complete Study Guide 3 Parts A&B.

If you are celebrating Eid, have a wonderful holiday tomorrow. All of your assignments for the day are excused. Make sure the Study Guide is completed by the end of class on Friday. 

10/11/13

Read chapter 3. You can start working on the Study Guide 3 if you like. Parts A&B should be complete by Tuesday.

Have a great weekend! :) 

10/10/13

Continue to work on completing your Study Guide 2. It is due on Friday at the end of class (noon). Review your TOEFL vocabulary for the TOEFL Week 2 quiz. You will use the words to write a paragraph. 

10/09/13

Here are the TOEFL 2 words that will be on the quiz on Friday:

augment	bibliophile	asylum	articulate	callous
avarice	bland	banal	artful	assiduous
ascetic	benevolent	auspicious	baneful	autocratic

You will use the words this week to make a paragraph. :) 

Continue to work on completing your Study Guide 2. It is due at noon on Friday.